MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Richard Kinley understands that his path to college football was set at a young age.
One might start was his parents. Both his mother, Candace Kinley, who's been a fixture at MTSU games since her youngest son came to Murfreesboro in 2019, and his father, Richard Kinley Sr., that played linebacker for Boots Donnelly in the late 1980s.
Then there are his older brothers. The oldest, Jonathan Brown, a three-time All-Big Ten linebacker for Illinois. And the middle brother, Cameron Kinley, a cornerback for the U.S. Naval Academy.